Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-01-13
A Sight Reminding One OF the Era
OF Caas River Corr Pine.

meth back to the days when Cass riv-
er pine was king ON the Saginaw river,
and the fact that stock was the pro-
duct OF that stream was a Suficipnt
endorsement to make II a marketable
commodity in any lumber center in the
land. Bat the Class river has ceased
to exist practically as a log producing
stream, only $500, 600 feet coming
therefroin during the past season of
1886, and 1t can therefore no longer be
depended on to ''sweesenn the humber
products on the Saginaw river. In
Eye ancient times" when this stock
was abundant, the plan of log harvest
ing IN vogue at that time would be
considered "wilful waste" because
nothing was put into the stream but
such as was virtually free from limbs
and shakes; aad this was a great fac
tor in its desirable quality, logs run
ming two to the Thousand being not
uncommon by any means.
But talking of ''sweetening" the
product ia this market reminds us
that there is at present piled on one of
the docks in this city, and in course of
manufacture, quantity of lumber,
which, when the logs will all have
been transformed into the commodity,
will aggregate about S,0G0, 600, nearly
l, eco, eco being already in pile, which
is fully equal to the Class river stock in
its palmiest days. 1t is the admired of
all admirers, not Only among our own
lumberinen, but also among the buy
ets who come here; and iJ is visited
daily by people who can appreciate a
good thing of the kind when they see
it, and the inverible exclamation after
an examination is, that beats any
thing in the lumber line that l have
ever seen."
This lumber is being cut at present
with band saw at the mill Of Geo. G,
Myers, in South Bay City, the logs
coming by rail from Grayling, and are
the property of Sailing, Hanson L. Co.
The logs are brought down on the
Michigan Central railroad and average
q to the thousand feet, nothing com-
ing here bat center logs, except oc.
casionally butt which is entirely free
from shakes, but the butts and top
logs are kept back. The logs which
are at present lying in the mill yard
are worth going miles TO gave upon,
being so uniform in size, and SO excel
lent in quality,
But the lumber piles are what catch
the eye Of an experienced handler OF
the product, and make reporter
green with envy, who knows n good
thing of the kind when he sees ii, but
whose finances are a bar to his acquir.
ing more than board or two of It al
a time, providing he should feel in
clined TO invest in such an expensive
iuAutS. INC iutHOCE OtlllG uluIluIuC-
tured with band saw makes it es.
peciully smooth and adds to its ap-
prarance as it must also TO its worth.
Think of three or four inch lumber, il
you please, running us nign as forty
three inches wide, withouta blemish,
and you can form some conception OF
fhiS cfonk Tho thick lnmbar al
course is the choice, and averages sc
per cent to uppers. The "nti~e lot le
good width md 1t viii average fifteen
feet in length.
There is at present In Pile S7i, 54C
feet and in order to give an Idea OF
how it runs, we secured list from the
inspector. showing the grades in a
much much satisfactory manner than
we could do ourselves by any other
method of description. Here it is: